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Conflict bodies : the politics of rape representation in the francophone imaginary
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- Creator
- Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2014
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- xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814293492, 0814293492, 9780814252932, 0814252931, 9780814212462, 0814212468
- OCLC
- ocn854541625, ocn899261155
- Includes bibliographical references (pa 273-306) and index.
- Text in English.
- Introduction: Can the subaltern survivor speak? The global politics of rape discourses -- Bound to violence? A history of the rape trope in francophone studies -- Rethinking political rape : genealogies of sexual violence in Haiti -- Undoing island rape analogies : beyond the rape of the land -- Beneath layers of violence : images of rape and the Rwandan genocide -- Regarding the pain of Congolese women : narrative closure, audience affect, and rape as a tool of war -- Epilogue. Not just (any) body can be a global citizen : rape and human rights advocacy in the twenty-first century
Subjects
- French literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism.
- Rape in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Politics and literature.
- Haitian literature -- History and criticism.
- Guadeloupe literature (French) -- History and criticism.
- Rwandan literature (French) -- History and criticism.
- Congolese (Democratic Republic) literature (French) -- History and criticism.